WHEREAS, it is appropriate that our citizens should demonstrate to our Armed Forces who are engaged in conflict in Korea, their continuing devotion to the American ideals of liberty and freedom; and

WHEREAS, it is fitting and proper that these citizens should by peaceful assembly show unanimous protest and opposition to all subversive groups and anti-American influences; and

WHEREAS, the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, acting on the slogan "Loyalty to One Ism--Americanism," has urged that a day be set aside dedicated to this premise;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Elbert N. Carve], Governor of the State of Delaware, do hereby proclaim Tuesday, May 1, 1951, as

LOYALTY DAY

in Delaware and urge all to participate in such ceremonies as will effectively note the observance.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I, Elbert N. Carvel, Governor of the State of Delaware, have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the said State to be hereunto affixed at Dover this Fifteenth day of April, in the Year of Our Lord, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Fifty-one, and of the Independence of the United States of America, the One Hundred and Seventy-fifth.